When running Python unit tests with tox, you might see the following errors: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuGet.targets(466,5): error : Value cannot be null. C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\Nu
A bunch of people have reported the following issue with the Azure IoT Python SDK: azure-iot-sdk-python/c/c-utility/adapters/httpapi_curl.c Func:HTTPAPI_ExecuteRequest Line:552 curl_easy_perform() fai
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When setting up Azure IoT Edge, you will most likely want to use an external config file. If you run iotedgectl setup with the --config-file option and don’t want to force passwords with the --auto-ce
You will likely want to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime from your own Azure Container Registry (ACR). While this will be officially supported eventually, right now it is not, but there is a workaround.
My iPhone 6 Plus was so slow it was unusable. Each tap would take 2-3 seconds and everything was sluggish. I deleted all apps I wasn’t using and turned off Background App Refresh but nothing helped.
Outlook has been hanging on me for the last couple of days. Turns out it is related to the Skype Add-in. I disabled the add-in and it’s fine now…but I won’t be able to use Skype integration until that
The default Raspberry Pi keyboard layout is “gb”. You can change to US by doing the following: sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard Change XKBLAYOUT="gb" to XKBLAYOUT="us". sudo reboot
Azure IoT Edge Public Preview was just announced at Microsoft Connect. Here’s how to get it running on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch or Stretch Lite. Raspbian Jessie should work as well, but I h
By default Raspberry Pi does not allocate enough of your SD card for it to be usable. Out of the box, if you run sudo apt upgrade, you’ll get a message saying that you don’t have enough disk space.
The very first thing you are going to want to do when you get your Raspberry Pi is install an OS. You have a few options, including Raspbian, a Debian based OS. Here’s how to get it installed. Purch
On Windows, Docker runs in a VM called MobyLinuxVM, but you cannot login to that VM via Hyper-V Manager. We aren’t technically going to SSH into the VM, we’ll create a container that has full root acc
Here’s how to delete your Docker container log files. Get Docker File Location 1. Run docker inspect to find your Docker log file location 2. Find the “Docker Root Dir” Value, mine is /var/lib/docker
Here are the steps I take to setup a Raspberry Pi for development: Get Raspberry Pi and Peripherals Raspberry Pi 3 Model B 7" Touchscreen Display SmartiPi Touchscreen Display Stand USB Keyboard
One of the first things you’ll want to do on a Raspberry Pi is change the hostname to something unique on your network. The default name is raspberrypi. You can change it via editing text files or th
The .NET Core SDK is not supported on ARM based devices such as the Raspberry Pi and the .NET Core team is not currently working on supporting it. As mentioned in the announcement, the SDK doesn’t fit
Update: 1/8/18: TrackR will now replace your first battery for FREE! I’ve been using TrackR for a couple of months now without issue. But I am surprised that the initial battery only lasted 2 months.
My team is hiring developers in the high-scale data space that have experience building data and analytics pipelines. The ideal candidate is someone with a deep understanding of Lamda architecture an
This docker command will remove all stopped containers. docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) This docker command will remove all containers, even if they are running. docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) -f If you
You may have just discovered that when you create a console app using the .NET Core CLI tools it only produces a DLL by default. If you execute this: dotnet new console -n App And then execute a buil
You’ll want to make sure you don’t leave the default ‘pi’ user’s password to the default ‘raspberry’ setting. Here’s how to change it. Login to Pi Login to your Pi via Remote Desktop, SSH or via moni
You will often want to execute commands over SSH instead of having to Remote Desktop or access your Pi via a monitor and keyboard. Here’s how to get SSH setup on your Pi. Enable SSH Via Pi Terminal su
It is very easy to get Docker running on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s a barebones post to get you started. You can execute the following commands over SSH or Remote Desktop. Install Docker curl -sSL https:
As part of your normal Raspberry Pi dev workflow you’re going to want to access the files of the Raspberry Pi from your host dev machine. Here’s how to create a file share with Samba. Create a File S
I’ve cleared out this post because the Raspberry Pi documentation site now has docs updated for Stretch. You can find the Raspberry Pi Remote Desktop setup steps here.
Azure IoT allows you to define “Endpoints” and send messages to them via “Routes”. Learn more about Endpoints and Routes here. I setup a Service Bus Queue Endpoint, but it was showing as “Unreachable”
I was recently working with a customer that uses Apache Avro compression and discovered that there isn’t a great example out there that shows you how to send Avro compressed messages through the IoT p
I’ve been doing a lot with Postman lately and have been blogging everything I’ve uncovered along the way. Postman is more than just an ad-hoc REST tester - I believe that the future of REST API docume
6/29/17 Update: There’s a new Azure Solution Template for Jenkins here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-solution-template-for-jenkins-on-azure/ Here’s how to get Jenkins on Azu
Many of you know that I’m fanatical about high quality coffee. Like many people, I used to think Starbucks was good coffee. That was until I experienced freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee. Tha
Some HTTP requests are long running and instead of asking users to wait for the long running operation to complete, they will return a “request status URI” that, when requested, will return a running/
I was recently working with a partner that was having some difficulty integrating with the Azure IoT REST APIs. You can read about that experience here: How to Use the Azure IoT Hub Device Twins REST
I’m working on a project that should make it much easier for developers to consume REST APIs that use SAS Tokens with Swagger and Postman. If you don’t already know, Postman is an app that allows you
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If you see the following while trying to edit an Azure Function via browser… “Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in
Starting with version 1.5 of the Power BI Custom Visuals SDK, we now have the ability to create “slicer” visuals, which are visuals that can filter data in other visuals on the same report. For the pu
We often need to share database connection strings, system account passwords and whatnot with our team members. People typically put the secret in a DRM’d email, but that’s not secure enough and you c
This post describes how to use Postman and Newman to demonstrate your APIs to your users. Of course, you are going to want to use Apiary to officially describe your APIs, but if you really want to dem
As you can imagine, we have many Power BI internal test environments and all Microsofties get redirected to an internal pre-release version of Power BI so we can test the latest features and provide f
You may notice that the latest version of VS Code uses PowerShell as its default Integrated Terminal. I’m not quite ready to use PowerShell for everything, so I wanted to switch it back to cmd for the
As of January 12th, 2017, Windows now has a brand new Bluetooth Settings dialog with a Connect button! Not having this button in the initial version of this dialog was a big miss and frustrated many p
I recently switched from AT&T to T-Mobile. Here’s a quick post that goes through why and how I made the swtich. 2/22/2017 Update: T-Mobile just introduced the 2 lines for $100 plan, so T-Mobile
Windows does not currently have a good way to re-connect to a previously paired Bluetooth audio device. I’ve blogged about this before, but I’ve simplified my re-connect process. I have heard this has
I’m hacking with a customer today who is using Python and needs to upload images to Azure IoT Hub using the File Upload API. It took us a while to figure it out and ran into a bunch of issues. Here’s
I use git-ftp to deploy my hexo blog from a git repo to an FTP site. Getting it setup on Windows was non-trivial. Here’s how I got it working. 1. Install Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install 2.
Here’s how to reference three.js in your Power BI Custom Visual project. I have not tested to see if three.js actually works on powerbi.com, but this is how to resolve reference issues. 1. Setup you
I’m working on a new visual that uses an open source JavaScript control that includes a CSS file. I was hoping I could just reference it in pbiviz.json, but that’s not possible because it only suppor
A big part of my Zero Inbox routine is to Cc myself when I want to be reminded to follow up on the mail. This is useful when you want to make sure you don’t send an email with a request from someone a
I recently gave a few presentations at Ignite New Zealand and used a couple of applications to help me find the lowest latency Azure Region from Auckland. You’ll want to know the top two regions, bec
While digging into the new Azure CLI 2.0 to create a Power BI Workspace Collection, I discovered that while you can create the Power BI Workspace Collection you cannot currently get to the Access Keys
This post will show you how to create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection via the new Azure CLI 2.0. People typically create Workspace Collections via the Azure Portal, but that requires clicks a
I pinged a friend over on the Azure API Management team for good “getting started with APIM” material and he sent over this list. I’ll post more as I dig in. Microsoft Azure API Management Essentia
I just moved my blog to hexo and ran into the “EMFILE: too many open files issue”. The hexo issue page recommends you run ulimit, but that doesn’t work on Windows. After trying a ton of different th
I’ve been at Microsoft since 2003. I started as a Dev in Windows, then Dev Lead for the Learning Platform, then Dev Lead in MSDN, then Dev Lead in Bing, then a Dev Lead at MSN, then a Dev Manager for
I was recently asked to help build a “Range Slider” Power BI Custom Visual that simply filters a report based on the slider value. Unfortunately “filtering” is not currently supported in the new Power